Josef Mengele

Josef Mengele (16 March 1911-7 February 1979) was a German SS officer and physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II who oversaw a series of deadly human experiments on prisoners.

Biography
Josef Mengele was born in Guenzburg, Bavaria, German Empire in 1911, and he held doctorates in anthropology and medicine before becoming a researcher, a member of the Nazi Party in 1937, and a member of the SS in 1938. He became a battalion medical officer at the start of World War II, and he was assigned to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943. There, he decided to conduct genetic research by use of human experiments, and he showed little regard for the health or safety of the subjects. In July 1949, he fled to Argentina to avoid capture and prosecution, assisted by a network of former SS members. He then fled to Paraguay in 1959 and Brazil in 1960 while being sought by West Germany, Israel, and Nazi hunters. Mengele repeatedly eluded capture until 1979, when he died of a stroke while swimming off the coast of Brazil.